Sponsor a Hen
Sponsor a hen and help save many more hens from slaughter
When you get involved and sponsor a BHWT hen you will be raising vital funds for the BHWT, funds that will enable us to continue giving a free-range future to many thousands of hens a year. We will send you a beautiful welcome pack with lots of fun facts about chickens, a photograph of your chosen hen, a certificate of adoption and lots more lovely goodies. We will also update you three times a year on how your hen is getting on in her new home!
Sponsorship is a simple way to support the BHWT and for as little as £4 a month or £48 a year you’ll get to know your new feathered friend by following her journey into new found freedom and be a part of an exciting movement of change within the British egg industry and beyond.
Know someone who’s hen-crazy? You can gift a sponsorship to a friend or loved one who loves hens too. Imagine how good it feels to know that you’re helping a chicken live her best retirement life while giving the sponsorship as a gift. It’s definitely a gift that keeps on giving!
- A framed photograph. Display with pride, a lovingly made framed photograph of your chosen hen that shows off your support.
- A certificate of sponsorship. A personalised certificate of sponsorship where you can meet Queenie. She speaks on behalf of many of her feathered friends and teaches you how Sponsor a Hen benefits every hen that we save from slaughter.
- A Hen-tastic factsheet. Discover all there is to know about chickens with this colourful factsheet. You might learn something about them that you never knew before!
- A BHWT branded pen. Sign your name with the supportive pen and share with your friends and family where your sponsored hen came from! A great addition to your desk or pencil case.
- A BHWT postcard. Featuring Daisy, one of our happiest hens. Send it to friends and show them how Sponsoring a Hen can be a great gift or hang it with pride on your fridge with the fun magnet!
- A fridge magnet. A lucky dip – receive one of six magnets, designed with collectable fun quotes for you to attach to your fridge or washing machine. Which one you get is a mystery…
The perfect pack for you...
When you sign up for Sponsor a Hen you can choose from three options as to how we send your pack; postal, digital or digital plus. By choosing from the table below you can decide which pack is right for you. If you would like to be more sustainable to the planet whilst giving a higher percentage of your donation to the BHWT, you can choose to keep your pack digital!
Still want to receive some goodies in the post? Then our Digital Plus pack is the one for you, allowing you to receive most of your pack in a digital form whilst still getting a printed photograph, BHWT postcard and other goodies.
Or, if you would prefer your pack posted to you or that can be sent as a gift, we have our Postal Pack available.
Digital
- Welcome letter
- Photograph of your sponsored hen
- Hen-tastic factsheet
- Certificate of sponsorship
- Updates from your hen three times a year in Spring, Summer and Winter
Digital Plus
- Welcome letter
- Framed photograph of your sponsored hen
- Hen-tastic factsheet
- Certificate of sponsorship
- BHWT branded pen
- Fridge magnet with one of six
collectable fun quotes - BHWT postcard with one of our happiest
hens on the front - Updates from your hen three times a year in spring, summer and winter
Postal
- Welcome letter
- Framed photograph of your sponsored hen
- Hen-tastic factsheet
- Certificate of sponsorship
- BHWT branded pen
- Fridge magnet with one of six
collectable fun quotes - BHWT postcard with one of our happiest hens on the front
- Updates from your hen three times a year in spring, summer and winter
- = received by email.
- = received by post.
Meet the flock!
We’ve combed through all the applications from hens hoping to become one of our happy half dozen. All you have to do now is choose which hen to sponsor and you can meet your new feathered friend by discovering her story below.
Dora
Kara
Kara is a feisty little hen and quite quickly was thought of as a little roadrunner. She’s impossible to catch! If she could speak, she would let us know how happy she is now she can run circles around the other hens. She lives with an old cockerel and when she came home, she would sit next to him all day, and sneak in his coop at night and try and snuggle down with him. He is five or six times bigger than her, but she knew he would look after her so they became the best of friends.
Lauren
Now, Lauren is completely fearless and just wants to make friends with everyone. Initially, many of the other hens were quite mean to her, but she was determined to make friends, even with a bad leg, to sit with them, or go to bed in their coop snuggled up. To this day she’s the first one to come up to someone new, and she always pops her head in the kitchen to see where the treats are, being the first to dive in, getting most of it all over her face.
Lola
Lola has grown into a beautiful happy hen with voluptuous golden feathers and striking yellow legs and loves nothing better than a cuddle.
Rosy
She also likes to establish her place by sitting in the doorway, making the more dominant girls step over her or causing an avian traffic jam with all the lower ranking girls.
Violet
When Violet was adopted she’d never been in daylight before and had only ever stood on a caged floor. She now has the run of a sloped forest outdoor space, with dappled light from trees and bushes, initially this must have been quite a shock. The day she arrived in her new home, she was scraggly and dishevelled but she settled in pretty quickly.
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